Media Minutes Audio
Media Minutes is the longest-running syndicated radio program of its kind focused on media policy and reform. Media Minutes tracks the latest industry developments, keeps an eye on Washington policy-makers, and talks to the experts and activists dedicated to changing our media environment for the better.
Recent programs have covered the grassroots groundswell in support of Network Neutrality, the FCC's new media ownership rules, and the fights to expand community media on the radio and on TV. Previous interview guests include law professor Lawrence Lessig, journalist Bill Moyers, and FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. Media Minutes archives go back to 2004.
Check back every Friday for a new installment of Media Minutes or subscribe to our podcast with iTunes.
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November 6, 2009
A Comcast-NBC Universal mega-merger would be bad news for consumers. And the FCC has jump-started its 2010 media ownership review process with a series of workshops. Public interest groups weighed in about research methods and focus.
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October 30, 2009
The Reconstruction of American Journalism, a new report from the Columbia School of Journalism, surveys a wide swath of the journalism landscape and suggests a path forward in this new era of digital news.
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October 30, 2009
A new report proposes a set of recommendations that endorse public policy as part of the solution to securing the future of news. And the Op-Ed Project is expanding public debate by training women to contribute their ideas to the public discourse in many ways.
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October 16, 2009
Grassroots campaigns urging CNN to drop Lou Dobbs from its nightly news lineup are gaining momentum. And the House Commerce Committee advanced the Local Community Radio Act. The bill will now move before the full House of Representatives.
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October 9, 2009
Free Press debunks old myths about Net Neutrality. And the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy released a groundbreaking report on the future of media.
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October 2, 2009
With product placement in TV programs exploding, public advocacy groups are calling for the FCC to develop rules for clear disclosure for all TV marketing. And broadcasters may be undermining the news and information you receive on your local TV newscast. In an effort to cut costs, some rival broadcasters are merging their newsroom operations.
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September 25, 2009
The future of an open Internet got a whole lot brighter this week. On Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered a landmark speech in which he called for new rules to protect Net Neutrality, the long-standing principle that bars Internet service providers from blocking or slowing any lawful content on the Web.
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September 18, 2009
The FCC is being asked to investigate broadcasters that have banned musicians who support the Performance Rights Act from their playlists. And the St. Paul Neighborhood Network is helping people to create media messages that matter to their communities.
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September 11, 2009
Privacy watchdogs want Congress and the FTC to create a system that would keep online marketing tactics transparent, accountable and respectful of user privacy. And following an investigation by the newspaper Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon was forced to terminate a journalist profiling program that rated reporters based on their likelihood of giving the military friendly coverage.
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September 4, 2009
In response to ColorofChange.org's call for advertisers to stop airing commercials on the Glenn Beck Show after Beck's racist remarks, 57 companies have pulled their ads. And an appeals court threw out the FCC's ruling that cable companies can't control more than 30 percent of a market. But that doesn't mean that the agency gets to ignore the issue of capping cable ownership.
